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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Ndoi Island in Fiji

Posted by admin on November 27, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.1212S, -179.4792WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 181 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji (112 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/11/19 / 2019-11-27 10:00:40 / November 27, 2019 @ 10:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -179.4792 West, latitude -22.1212 South, depth = 570.42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 570.42 km (354 miles). Event id: us70006dnx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006dnx. The temblor was picked up at 22:00:40 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 181 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.4792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.1212° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 570.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 181km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-27 10:00:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-27 10:20:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1.28 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 482 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006dnx Id of event.
Event Code 70006dnx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006dnx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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